The Freak 21
A journalist remarked that time will now be measured around September 11, 2001 — as Before and After. Before, life could be considered normal. After, tens of thousands of people I’d never known nor met became as important to me as family. Other, more personal events had long been coming by the time September 11th rolled around. My love life had been in complete stasis for a number of months, and I decided I’d had enough of being single. A girl came back into my life right about then, one I...